Everett v. Christopher
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story • District Court.— Hon. J. R. Whit-, aker, Judge. Action to recover damages because of diverting surface waters. • Judgment for defendants, from which the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The defendants’ farm, of one hundred and sixty acres, lies immediately north of plaintiff’s eighty-acre tract. The petition alleged “ that there is and was naturally a swale across the premises occupied-by the defendants, entering near the northeast corner, and extending southwest to an exit a little north of the southwest corner; ” that it was the natural outlet for the surface water from a large tract of land lying to the northeast; that the defendants, “ for the purpose of obstructing the flow of said surface water across their premises in the natural channel, and for the purpose of…
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